Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr!tektronix!psueea!parsely!agora!billsey
From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Maxtor XT-3280S/2090
Message-ID: <1507@agora.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 89 04:16:23 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <125@ncc1701.UUCP:, by space@ncc1701.UUCP (Lars Soltau):
: In article <18829@cup.portal.com: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
::What Dale says is true; I was with him that afternoon trying to get his
::Maxtors up using the A2090 and some other cards; no dice.
: 
: Hmmm. The XT-3280 I bought from Bill Seymour is running like a charm. I had
: absolutely no trouble connecting it to my A2090. The only thing I'm still
: wondering about is that I had to specify 25 BlocksPerTrack, while in the
: manual it said the drive had 26 BPT. I'm still waiting for the answer from
: Bill on that one.

	Gee, I thought I sent you mail about that... Maybe the mailer is
broken again between us... The drives were all formatted for PCs with 512
byte sectors and 25 sectors per track. The 26th sector is reserved for
bad block mapping. The docs from Mator are a little confusing as to how
you're supposed to use the ending tracks for bad blocks, instead of the
ending sectors. Maybe the next software release from Supra (in beta right
now...) will have it. I'll ask Clark and see. Note that the 25 sector per
track scheme is much faster overall than the 26 sector per track scheme.
You don't have nearly as far to go when you need to find a relocated block!

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